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    #1  Edited By crusader8463

    I was wondering if someone could help me getting my microphone to work on my PC. It's windows 7 64 bit. For some reason my microphone refuses to register and pick up signals no matter what port I plug it into. When I go into the sounds/recording tab half of the devices are showing up as not plugged in, and the other half doesn't pick up any noise when I talk into the mic. I have also tried downloading the drivers for my sound card hoping that would solve it, but every one I download from the official site it says it's not the right version for the card I have or that I just flat out don't have one. Even though they are the same drivers I have downloaded a dozen times over over the years I have had this computer.

    Any and all advice would be appreciated.

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    #2  Edited By crusader8463

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    #3  Edited By Lunar_Aura

    On the Sound -> Recording tab, did you try right clicking and check "Show Disabled Devices"? Try playing around with enabling and/or "Set as Default Device". If none of that works, maybe your mic is broken.

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    #4  Edited By SlasherMan

    Microphones break you know. Did you try it on another machine/device, or try another mic on yours?

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    #5  Edited By crusader8463

    @Lunar_Aura said:

    On the Sound -> Recording tab, did you try right clicking and check "Show Disabled Devices"? Try playing around with enabling and/or "Set as Default Device". If none of that works, maybe your mic is broken.

    Ya that's the first thing I tried but it wasn't picking up on anything I tried. I would test another mic but this is the only one I got and it was working the last time I tried to use it; about a month back.

    @SlasherMan said:

    Microphones break you know. Did you try it on another machine/device, or try another mic on yours?

    You don't say? Things break? I did not know that. Thanks for the hot tip. I have no other device to try it on and no other microphone to test with or I would have. Was just hoping someone might have known about some little known button that everyone always overlooks or some stupid little box I forgot to check.

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    #6  Edited By pedanticjase

    i had this i think it was a update on win 7 64

    i just reinstalled the drivers

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